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Studio, 26/2/18

REVISITING FORM: Architecture, Socialism, Modernism 

public seminar at the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary (12 April 2013)

REVISITING FORM was organised by BALTIC curator Alessandro Vincentelli and Sebastian Messer, Northumbria University.  The conference took, as its starting point, the BALTIC’s major retrospective exhibition of Croatian artist, David Maljkovic. 

During the morning Owen Hatherley, architectural critic and writer, talked about abstraction and figurative sculpture in political, memorial art.

Agata Pyzik, author of forthcoming book “Sexy But Poor”, on the erasure of social and cultural landmarks in former Warsaw Pact countries and the rise of the new left in politics in those countries.

After lunch, Sebastian and Alessandro discussed some of the themes raised by the Maljkovic exhibition, which was followed by a presentation of “Animate Landscapes” (Pamphlet Architecture 32) by Matt Ozga-Lawn, Stasus, who discussed his working practices and research aims.  Nic Clear, Head of Department of Architecture and Landscape at the University of Greenwich, discussed architecture in relation to science fiction, particularly the utopian/ dystopian tradition, explored by his post-graduate students in Unit 15 at the Bartlett, University College London, and at Greenwich.

NO SLEEP TILL ZAGREB Friday 12 April 2013 / 18.30 / Free Drop-in / No booking required facebook event page: http://on.fb.me/16I46z4 The NewBridge Project Space 16 New Bridge St West, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 8AW

A post-symposium event presented by BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in collaboration with Northumbria University to complement the symposium, Revisiting Form: Architecture, Socialism, Modernism

Friday 12 April 2013 / 11.00-17.00 / FREE Booking essential. Book online or call 0191 478 1810.

To complement the exhibition David Maljkovic: Sources in the Air at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead.

BALTIC together with Northumbria University present a seminar examining the legacy of modernist utopian architecture and design from the 1950s-70s in the former socialist Yugoslavia. Drawing upon the re-visiting of key avant-garde moments as a theme in Maljkovic‘s work the seminar moves outwards to explore how at this time (the 1950s-70s) a unique body of architecture was produced that blurred the pre-existing categories of Modernism.

Connecting this research with the present, the seminar will include presentations from architecture critic and writer Owen Hatherley; architect and design critic, Maroje Mrduljas, Faculty of Architecture, Zagreb and editor of Oris magazine; and the writer and critic, Agata Pyzik.